Новости за 26.01.2017

The Trump Administration’s first reported meeting with a Jewish organization didn’t involve the community’s traditional institutional heavyweights. On January 23, Axios reported that White House aide and former investor Anthony Scaramucci met with the Zionist Organization of America president Mort Klein in New York, in what The Forward described as the “first Jewish meeting with Trump officials.” Scaramucci is the White House’s director of the office of public liaison and intergovernmental affairs—the... Читать дальше...

The death of Mary Tyler Moore, a longtime sufferer of Type 1 diabetes, would have come as a major blow at any time, but it feels especially painful now—and not just because hers is one of the first major celebrity deaths of 2017 (itself a year on the heels of another that was notoriously rife with them). Moore’s death at the age of 80 has arrived in our lives at a time when everything Moore stood as our most convincing avatar—female liberation, equality, and autonomy—seems to be imperiled.

Early this morning, around 12:30 a.m., actor-turned-performance artist Shia LaBeouf was arrested outside of the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria Queens, where his latest art piece called “He Will Not Divide Us” is staged, under charges of misdemeanor assault and harassment.

In southern New Jersey, a high school production of Ragtime, the musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 historical novel, is facing the possibility of censorship. The story, set in New York from the turn of the century through America’s entry into World War I, focuses on several marginalized groups, including African Americans in Harlem, and Jewish and Irish immigrants. The musical contains sensitive language about race: The n-word is used several times, for example, and its usage throughout... Читать дальше...

This week on Unorthodox, IDF soldiers are smokin.’

Our Jewish guest is David Duchovny, best known for his roles in The X-Files and Californication but a fiction writer in his own right—his new novel, Bucky F*cking Dent, follows a Red Sox-loving father and son during the 1978 World Series. He tells us how fictional FBI agent Fox Mulder would feel about James Comey right about now, his favorite X-Files meme, and his long-lost Yale Ph.D. thesis on magic and technology in 20th-century fiction. Читать дальше...

On a warm, sunny day in March, Rosa Zuta walked out of her Tel Aviv apartment and took the most emancipating breath of fresh air she’s had since January 1945, when she was liberated from Auschwitz. It was the first time 92-year-old Zuta had left her apartment in three years. While she was fortunate enough to survive years in the Lodz ghetto, where her father and brother died of hunger and disease, followed by Auschwitz, where she watched as the Nazis sent her mother to the gas chamber, she has... Читать дальше...

Is Ivanka’s Shabbos observance anyone’s business? I think it is. Because it isn’t about Shabbos at all, it’s about Ivanka and Jared, who were given the green light from an anonymous rabbinical authority to use a car during President Trump’s inauguration.